Genome complexity in embryology (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 18:32 (3497 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: A God following the same learning curve would seem more convincing to me than your UI who preprogrammes humans from the start, but also preprogrammes plovers and platypuses, whales and weaverbirds for reasons you cannot discern.-How do you know God has a learning curve? No theologian would claim that, why should you? 
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> dhw: Either wildly inventive organisms are wildly inventive or they are automatons obeying your God's instructions.....but wish you would stop using euphemisms such as “guided” and “directed” to gloss over the fact that this entails preprogramming or direct dabbling. We English cowboys shoot from the hip - none of your fancy twiddles and twirls.
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> DAVID: I've admitted to preprogramming or dabbling all along. Guided and directed fit the bill.
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> dhw; You have,but you stopped using those terms when I started pushing the unlikelihood of a 3.7-billion-year computer programme, and the problem of drawing the line between dabbling and separate creation. “Guided” and “directed” are so gently vague that they mask the colossal implications and the problems attached to them.-They are your problems, not mine. I don't know why you try so hard to decipher God's exact role in evolution. I don't think anyone knows except Him. It seems He used an evolutionary process. Dayenu!